🇺🇸🛡️🇦🇹 Addressing transatlantic security challenges in an evolving threat environment. This week, @HudsonInstitute's @RichardWeitzDC visited Vienna to discuss perspectives on U.S. national security and defense strategies with Austrian military, policy, and civil society leaders. These transatlantic exchanges are important to develop a clear, shared understanding of evolving global challenges and steps needed to address them. Over two days, he participated in: ✅ Roundtable discussions with Austrian Armed Forces and the National Defense Academy ✅ Strategic dialogue at the @AIES_austria ✅ Panel on drone technology in contested environments at the #DroneVation Conference ✅ Meeting with youth political leaders

We were pleased to host Dr. Richard Weitz, a leading U.S. scholar on security and great-power competition, and provide an opportunity for counterparts and partners to engage on strategic deterrence in the 21st century. To that end, the United States has proposed modernized, multilateral strategic stability and arms control discussions to protect nuclear materials and strengthen global security. The multilateral approach can prevent an unmitigated nuclear arms race and limit the build‑up of nuclear arms.   @StateACN

The $27.44 billion FY27 request for NNSA weapons activities is $3.18 billion (or 13%) more than the FY26 enacted level and $6.1 billion (or 29%) more than the FY25 projection for FY27. There wasnt a FY26 FYNSP, but as of FY25 weapons wasnt slated to exceed $27 billion til FY34.